He said a so-called "open season" launched in June and
extended in August to gauge demand for a new 160-mile pipeline
connecting an existing Illinois-to-Louisiana pipeline to the St.
James, Louisiana, oil hub lacked enough commitments to justify
construction.

Energy Transfer is still moving forward with converting the
574-mile stretch of natural gas pipeline to move crude oil from
Patoka, Illinois, to Boyce, Louisiana, he said. It will,
however, do so without Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge Inc
, its former partner in the project, he added during the
company's third-quarter earnings conference call.

That project is one of several underway that aim to move
more Canadian heavy crude to Gulf Coast markets.
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